The oddest gift you've ever given is ...
11So a good friend just got married this weekend; for better or worse, he was the one who told me about Woot years ago. Probably worse, given my subsequent shirt collection ...
Anyway, they had a couple wedding registries, with the typical household items. And a series of not so typical items for a bathroom remodel, like paint, tile, towel bars, faucets ... and a toilet.
Feel free to guess what I got them ... :)
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When you want to send the very best.... :)
Was it an overly complicated Japanese toilet?
Every time they poop, they'll think of you, @narfcake! What more would you want from a gift?
I hope you didn't get them one of those low-flow ones!
I had my friend made a Scottish Laird. I bought him one square foot of Scotland, which officially made him titled gentry and came with a nice packet and certificate which I framed. I also bought him a hand made leather sporan tooled with Celtic knotwork, a Sgian-dubh (Scottish dagger) and some woolen kilt hose. He already had a utili-kilt.
http://www.highlandtitles.com/
@moondrake I bought one of these for my wife. She's a Lady of Dunans.
I gave someone Club Penguin money (or whatever they call it) who had never played Club Penguin.
@hart Reminds me of when I signed up for FaceBook for the first time in order to take advantage of a photobook offer and immediately people started emailing me cows. I kept getting these emails saying "so and so has sent you a cow". I felt bad, all those cows starving in my mailbox but I had no interest in playing Farmville. Somewhere in my old mail there's a stockpile of cow carcasses.
Probably 4 giant gumball machines, or maybe it was that light up sign from a Korean shipping company, no it was probably the 50 lbs of goat feed, but then there's the box full of terrifying squeaky seals and baby dolls (yeah that one never got posted about, kinda scared to find out what happened to the person that got it).
@JonT - Armless baby dolls?
Earlier this year, I left a framed photo of Coworker A on the desk of Coworker B.
@nadroj God, what a fantastic idea! mind if I borrow that? hejhehheh....
@nadroj I'm totally stealing that idea too for much office hijinks to be had.
@nadroj Especially nice when B hates A, too. I did similar, without frame though. I kept hiding pics of the hated A where the hater B would find a nice surprise. Kept it up for a week or two, then intermittently.
@Steve7654 @curtise Be my guest. The wonderful thing is people thought A left the photo. Even after he denied it, they weren't entirely convinced until I confessed.
@nadroj and they let you live. Are you missing any fingers ?
@ceagee Believe it or not, the photo has been regifted a few times. I lost track when it migrated to another floor.
I got married a couple of years ago, and like to put a lot of thought into gift giving. For our first Christmas together, I had to resort to the shotgun approach; you know, giving several very different gifts as a backup plan in case she doesn't care for the one big thing that you thought she would go crazy over. The one thing that she really liked, although she had this strange shocked expression on her face when she opened the envelope, was a hot air balloon ride. We made a weekend trip out of it and flew over the Shenandoah valley of Virginia at sunrise. It was one of our favorite experiences ever, and cost less than $100 per person.
@Steve7654 I think you are almost too nice to be here.
When the eldest turned 9, we got a card that said something along the lines of "For your birthday, I got you this jar of farts. I filled it myself." and wrapped a small empty jar.
He loved it. His sister loved it. He 'tested' it and swears that it smelled horrible and threatened to open in it his sisters bedroom. She tries to steal it for nefarious purposes.
I always had this running gag w/ a friend and we would send each other the oddest food we could find ( and that could be shipped) . But after seeing some of the things posted on this forum, I'm afraid they would not seem so odd.
@ceagee YAY! Me, my sister and a friend exchange 'bad candy'. :D Sometimes it's bad tasting, sometimes it's just weird stuff we find; we call it all bad candy. My sister and I started it more than 10 years ago. My favorite, although not the weirdest, was the 'Giant Hissy Fit.' 36 inches of gummy snake!
@Mavyn Oh. My nieces and nephews would love those. Link please.
@Mavyn @ceagee you can get one of these giant gummy snakes:
They're only $150 too! https://www.vat19.com/item/26-pound-edible-gummy-python-candy?adid=gbase&gclid=CJPUyfGz0MECFQFgMgod83oA-A
@ceagee I got them in a grocery store... I think amazon has them, too
Google hissy fit gummy.
@Mavyn @ceagee It's "Big Fat Hissee Fit Gummy Snake". Hissee because it is a snake and some snakes apparently hiss. And also it sounds like hissy fit, which makes it have two possible meanings. I get jokes.